Aircrack-ng vs Core Impact
Aircrack-ng
aircrack-ng.orgCore Impact
coresecurity.comSide by side
| Figure | Aircrack-ng | Core Impact |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | Free | $787.50/mo |
| Free plan | Yes | — |
| Free trial | — | Yes |
| Open source | — | — |
| Windows | Yes | Yes |
| macOS | Yes | — |
| Linux | Yes | — |
| API | — | Yes |
| Self-hosted | Yes | Yes |
| Plans published | 1 | 3 |
| Spec score · Penetration Testing Software | 8.3 (#7) | 8.2 (#10) |
| Purpose | Aircrack-ng is a suite of tools for assessing Wi-Fi network security. | Core Impact is penetration testing software for safely uncovering and exploiting security weaknesses. |
| Support | The project directs users to its wiki, tool documentation, manpages, FAQ, troubleshooting pages, forum, and IRC, and says it does not provide support over email. | Basic and Pro include customer portal and email support; Enterprise includes phone, customer portal, and email support. |
| Testing | The suite checks wireless cards and driver capabilities for capture and injection. | It supports multi-vector testing across network, client-side, web application, and endpoint environments. |
Plans
Core Impact
- Core Impact Basic$9,450 a year
- Core Impact Pro$12,600 a year
- Core Impact EnterprisePriced on request
In their own words
Aircrack-ng
Aircrack-ng is a free suite of command-line tools for assessing Wi-Fi network security. It captures packets and exports data to text files for processing with third-party tools, and checks wireless cards and drivers for capture and injection capabilities. The toolset also covers frame injection and replay, monitor-mode control, wireless-network graphing, and cracking WEP and WPA PSK keys, including WPA 1 and 2. The project says its command-line format allows heavy scripting. Aircrack-ng is open source under GPL v2, BSD 3 Clause, and OpenSSL licenses, and can be compiled without OpenSSL. It runs on Linux, macOS, Windows, and self-hosted deployments, with significant caveats for Windows: compatibility is only with Airpcap, and the Windows 1.7 download requires users to develop their own wireless-card DLLs, which are not included or supported. Chipset support is also incomplete, and some functions may not work even with a supported chipset. The downloads page lists version 1.7. Only the latest stable release is supported. The project directs users to documentation and community channels, not email support, and warns against accessing networks that do not belong to them.
Core Impact
Core Impact has no write-up on Specifiction yet; its figures are above.